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Astronomers Find Wobbling Black Hole Spewing Plasma-Jet Clouds Into Space

“It’s wonderful that we have finally found direct evidence for the basic effect predicted by Einstein and others over a century ago. "
Dynamic Support

First Full Class of Blue Ridge Scholars Set to Walk the Lawn

Making a world-class education a reality for students who might have otherwise faced financial barriers.
Focused Research

Study Identifies New Approach to Repairing Damaged Peripheral Nervous System

A new UVA study proves that a damaged peripheral nervous system is capable of repairing itself – when healthy cells are recruited there from the central nervous system.
Focused Research

Rita Dove’s Poem About UVA Bell Ringer Henry Martin Featured in The New Yorker

Henry Martin, one of UVA’s best-known employees, began his life enslaved and died after working on Grounds as a free man for more than 50 years. English professor and former U.S. poet laureate Rita Dove's poem about him was published in The New Yorker this week.
Dynamic Support

Brandon Ave. Housing Named for UVA Professor and Civil Rights Icon Julian Bond

The name of the late Julian Bond, one of the most prominent leaders of the civil rights movement and a beloved University of Virginia history professor, will grace a new upper-class student residence building on Brandon Avenue.
Engaged Learning

Amid Catholic Reckoning, UVA Religion Classes Offer Exploration, Discussion

UVA – and the transition to young adulthood it marks for many students – has offered space for transformation, critical thinking and deep, often very personal questions about what they believe and why, at a time when young people are leaving organized religion in record numbers.
Engaged Learning

Road Fraught With Danger for Female Migrants, UVA Student Research Finds

“People are migrating because they need to and the process of trying to resettle somewhere includes dangers, challenges and obstacles that many Americans do not understand or realize."
Dynamic Support

UVA Plans New School of Data Science; $120 Million Gift is Largest in University History

The School of Data Science – UVA’s 12th school – will seek to improve society through teaching and research based on the powerful, emerging field of data science.
Focused Research

NSF Renews Three-Decade Coastal Research Program

For the sixth straight time – and for what will be 36 years running – UVA's Long-Term Ecological Research Project on Virginia’s Eastern Shore has received significant funding from its primary sponsor, the National Science Foundation.
Dynamic Support

University Creates 20 Rotating Professorships for Democracy and Equity

The positions will examine underlying causes that fueled the violent white supremacist demonstrations in Charlottesville in 2017.

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